CRJ getting free of the real “Boy Problem,” which is the patriarchal paradigm itself

Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Boy Problems,” a song that is ostensibly about annoying your girlfriends with too much boy talk but is actually (according to me) a beautiful treatise on the frisson of gay self-discovery, almost didn’t make it onto CRJ’s album but immediately declared itself as a crowd favorite upon Emotion’s release. Now “Boy Problems” has a video, directed by the unmistakably dreamy artist Petra Collins—and it’s good enough to make you want to fire up the old time machine, cut those bangs into a mullet, make “Run Away With Me” the lead single off Emotion, have Collins direct the video instead of CRJ’s boyfriend, please, and watch our favorite pop star ascend to the Swiftian heights that have been denied her as if by ancient decree. Anyway, to the point:

“Boy Problems” premiered today at Rookie, where Collins’s sensibility has been definitive (Tavi makes a cameo in the video, too), but it went up accidentally,somehow, on Stereogum on Tuesday, which is why Rookie’s writeup calls the premiere “**official** (ahem).”

I haven’t worn a color in six months now and I still want to live inside this shot

However, before the video was pulled, I ripped it, prompted by the sexual command Collins has with these colors, and a shot of a girl taking selfies in a coffin—an easy joke! Nonetheless, iconic—and so now I leave you with these gifs today.